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...Larry Repsher can complete his cram course in track techniques and learn to run a race without ending up 20 yards behind, he will probably be coach McCurdy's choice for the 440 yard race...
...homework, athletics instead of afternoon classes. Under her watchful eye young Don got good, if not spectacular, grades. The pattern continued after the family moved from Kansas to Washington, D.C., and when there was no money for college, Mother Felt had an answer for that too. Don entered a cram school for the Naval Academy, went to Annapolis with the class...
...chief training installation, come about 1,000 men each year for introductory training or refresher courses in installing and maintaining air navigational aids. The center is the only training school for air-traffic-control operators, currently runs 2,000 men a year through an eight-week cram course. After a brief introduction to basic operating procedures, the students are put to work controlling traffic on a scale model of Will Rogers airport laid out on a classroom floor. The instructors set up traffic problems with model airplanes, make them more complex as the students catch on, occasionally throw...
...getting, a cram course in what Catholicism believes; the particular credo of the Southern Baptists is perhaps less familiar. The old notions - the Bible belt, temperance leagues, hellfire evangelism and fundamentalism-are still part of the Southern Baptist scheme of things, but they are growing increasingly oldfashioned. Aside from the obvious issue of racial integration. Southern Baptists differ from their Northern brethren mainly in that 1) they are more distrustful of ecumenical movements, are reluctant to join any other Christian denomination for any purpose, 2) they tend to favor closed Communion for 'those of like faith and order" rather...
...beating the bushes to recruit articulate, attractive young Republicans to run for Congress. Last week 167 of 1960's crop of new Republican candidates paid their way to the capital, where the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee picked up hotel and food tabs and put on a two-day cram course on how to influence voters and win elections...